THE NEW YORKER who has actually called at the White I-Iouse on any given day, because the official list often omits the names of callers of real importance. N at long ago, one of the White I-Iouse automo- biles was involved in a slight accident, a minor collision with a tin-can tourist's flivver. Strict orders were issued that nothing was to be said about it, and as a consequence the accident assumed the proportions of a major catastrophe. Curiously enough, when Mr I-Ioov- er took office, he weighed newspaper comment with great seriousness. Elab- orate plans were made whereby every ,' t.i. '1 1 "; ,t ' . . ' -=:.-.:....... clipping was filed. I-Ie had an aSSIS- tan t tabulate the editorials for and against each important policy, and "",-auld calculate the total circulations of the friendly and hostile papers. After learning the verdict, he would assure himself that this represented public opInIon. Actually, it represehted the opinions of several hundred editorial writers, nothing more. The plan was soon abandoned. I MMEDIATELY to the left of the President's office, as one enters, s the CabInet Room, low and long, with :'; ::':"":"" ::::;::: 23 cream-colored walls, with a huge ma- hogany table. Around the table are chairs with the names of the Cabinet members attached to them, not in the flamboyant fashion of motion-pic- ture directors' chairs, but decorously: through small brass plates on the back. The scheme of the room is Colonial, but following the fire last winter mod- ernistic lighting fixtures were installed, giving an incongruous effect. No minutes are kept of Cabinet meetings, and it is considered the height of bad form for members to discuss them. The sessions vary, of course, .....::;:.:':';. .,.,i-,t.;::':" . "\<. ,t>,/& . , . , 'i .....,.. v,>1Iii>. ::.. ': L...,.. , , . .':.:,.........:.:. , j, . " N .}. (CPlease, lvir. Windle, don't be a gorilla!" ....;;..'. ;: .-.. - , I ... ..:.... , ..;; "', 3